CIRCA 1762, GOLD ANCHOR MARKS

Details

A pair of Chelsea mazarine-blue-ground pierced pot-pourri vases and covers
Circa 1762, gold anchor marks
Of flared oval section, the fronts painted in predominantly purple camaieu and with iron-red and yellow, with a lady at her toilet and with a lady receiving a bouquet from a boy and girl, the reverses with bouquets of flowers including roses, tulips and carnations within moulded oval cartouches reserved on the mottled blue-ground gilt with butterflies and insects, the top rim moulded with gilt foliage scrolls and husks, the lower part gilt with diaper-pattern, on circular spreading feet supported by four gilt moulded scrolls, the domed covers applied with gilt flowerheads (both vases broken through stem and repaired, the first with one chip to raised foliage scroll on shoulder, the other with a repair through another scroll, one finial repaired)
10¼ in. (16 cm.) high

Provenance

Somerley House, Hampshire.

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Lot Essay

Other vases of this unusual form from the Collection of Baroness Burton were sold in these Rooms on the 22nd November 1950, lot 19 and then offered on two subsequent occasions, 19th October 1970, lot 104 and 12th July 1982, lot 55. Another pair, lacking covers, is illustrated by Reginald Blunt op. cit. (London, 1924), pl. 25, no. 86.

While there is much research still to do into the matter of decoration on Chelsea porcelain of this period, it has been suggested that the style of painting on the present lot resembles that on the 'Cleopatra' vases, which were contemporary commissions from the Chelsea factory in 1762 and gifted to the British Museum by Dr. George Garnier, the Apothecary-General to the Army, in 1763 (see Elizabeth Adams, op. cit., (London, 1987)) p. 163.

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